Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.